Pile-covering



(No Model.)

H. ANDERSON.

PILE COVERING.

No. 366,444. Patented July 12, 1887.

I Vifinesses Inventor:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

HENRY ANDERSON, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF PART TO HENRY T. COMPTON AND JOHN MILTON KILE, BOTH OF SAME PLACE, AND ALEXANDER T. VOGELSANG, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

FILE-COVERING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,444, dated July 12, 1887.

Application filed February ll, 1887. Serial No. 221317.

To aZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HENRY ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of the city of Oakland, Alameda county, State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pile-Covering, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referring to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide suitable means for the protection of piles from the ravages of the terredo, lemnoria, or other marine insects.

Figure 1 shows an elevation of a pile and of my improved pile-covering. Fig. 2 shows a cross-seetion through the pile and my pilecovering.

In corstrueting my improved pile I begin by stripping a suitable portion of the bark from the pile A. I then proceed to paint the uncovered section of the pile with a coating of tar, B, or other suitable paint. After the tar is painted I proceed to cover that section with a thick layer or cover of asphalt, 0. Over the asphalt I place a covering of sheet-lead,

D, which I prefer to secure by suitable means,

and as further security for fastening the sheetlead, and to prevent injury to the lead covering by the rubbing or concussion of a vessel or other material, I cover the sheet-lead by (No model.)

wrapping metallic wire or strips E around the sheet-lead and secure the wire or strips E in a suitable manner by means of nails, screws, or solder to the lead covering and the pile, thus obviating the uncoveringof the wire from the pile and lead covering if by any cause whatsoever any section of the wire is severed or broken.

I do not confine myself to the use of lead as a covering material, as I may find it desirable to construct my improved pile-covering with out a covering of sheet-lead.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a pile-covering and applied to the bare wood of pile A, a coating of tar or paint, B, a covering of asphalt, C, sheet-lead D, me tallie wire or strips E, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 5,0

2. As apile-covering and applied to the bare wood of pile A, a coating of tar or paint,

B, a covering of asphalt, C, metallic wire or strips E, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY ANDERSON. [n s] IVitnesses:

FERDINAND IMHORST,

ALPHONSO B. SMITH,

CHARLES F. GOMPERTZ. 

